brm_254773 - VICTORINUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 269
Mint name / Town : Cologne
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan large et épais. Joli portrait. Beau revers. Patine noire aux reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PI VICTORINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Victorin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Piavvonius Victorinus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Piavvonius Victorin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVG.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, drapée, nourissant un serpent qu'elle tient dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : "Salus Augusti", (La Santé de l'auguste).
Commentary
Portrait de Marius.
Historical background
VICTORINUS
(10-11/269-09/271)
Victorin spent his entire career under the reign of Postumus, of whom he was one of the main civil collaborators. He succeeds Marius, who died just after Postumus. Victorin definitively loses Spain at the beginning of the reign and has to face seditions in Brittany and Gaul. The siege of Autun, a university town in Gaul, lasted seven months. Shortly after, Victorin was assassinated in Cologne by one of his officers, a jealous husband, when he had just restored order in Gaul with the capture of Autun. His mother, Victorine, continues to play an important role in choosing the successor of her son, Tétricus..
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